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Cultural references and in game jokes in MMVI.
08/01/2013, 14:39:49

    Raphael writes:

    There were so many. At the moment I'm waiting on a new copy of the game to arrive (my sound was faulty so I decided to get a new one) but I was thinking that I probably missed a lot of the jokes in the game since some where fairly specific.

    Like Eel Infested Waters was clearly a nod to The Princess Bride and at the moment the only one I can clearly remember.

    Are there any others I might have missed. I don't mean things like traditions in the series but rather specific little cultural references within the game.





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I'm sure there are....
08/01/2013, 17:14:10

    Bones writes:

    Not as many as in some games, perhaps, but some. I suspect that the Monolith was a nod to the Monolith game engine (predecessor of Lithtech). I was told by the lead developer of MM9 that they named several NPCs after members of the LA Lakers, so I expect most of the references to be found will be in the NPC names.




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IIRC . . .
08/05/2013, 13:31:03

    Peter2 writes:

    There is one of the MM games (and I think it's this one) in which one of the NPC name options for a Fool is Droppa MaPantz, which is probably a reference to Roger Zelazny's "Amber" books.




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Should be a lot of references
09/05/2013, 21:13:30

    MarisVetra writes:

    Star Trek for one Werewolves in blackshire - i think might be from some movie... I havent studied it, but i remember there were quite a bit. 5-10 years ago i read somewhere the list someone made... Also now it will be hard for me to find any references even if i try because game is from 1998 and its based upon popular culture of 80s and 90s, i was a kid when game was released so i really should be watching lot of old movies, listen to pop songs, go to theaters, read books and then from all that information try to figure out something. And there might be some references from classics like Jules Verne(Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - LINKOLN in MM7 maybe, or some influence at least), H. G. Wells(War of the worlds, The Time Machine - or tv show Stargate SG-1, which might be influenced by both and from which again might be infulenced mm7 aliens in Celeste), possibly series "Alien" with Sigourney Weaver - the devils idea. But really i think at the 80s, 90s there were so many movies, books, shows, songs, jokes about governments and spies that if you didnt live in that time, its hard to figure it out.




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